Cynthia Nixon Quotes
I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
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You can imagine, if somebody's approaching retirement, and all of a sudden the funds that he or she is depending on is depleted by 50% or however many, it gives them a sinking feeling in the pit of their stomach.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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Some people ask me, Do they put aging makeup on you? It's just this very nice street makeup.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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A good leader must be fair.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I don't have mom issues or dad issues. I think I have found peace about many things in my past. I have forgiven and asked to be forgiven.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
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You tend to meet on a more regular basis with people in your industry, and reality being what it is, you tend to meet with them at the particular level that you occupy; so that develops a fraternity relationship.
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Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
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If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy.
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Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
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The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.
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I also grew to love Nancy Reagan in a certain way. I learned more - certainly I learned more bad stuff that I had known about in greater detail, but I also got a lot of empathy.
